It's 1939 and professor Guy Pringle arrives in Romania with his new wife, Harriet, in reluctant tow. Soon Guy has thrown caution to the wind and is vocally expressing his distaste for fascism, much to Harriet's concern. Fortunes of War is truly epic, using the Pringles as lynch pin from which we observe the all consuming arrival of the Second World War as it cuts a brutal swath across Europe and North Africa. This adaptation of Olivia Manning's autobiographical novels is a beautifully performed find out more...

It's 1939 and professor Guy Pringle arrives in Romania with his new wife, Harriet, in reluctant tow. Soon Guy has thrown caution to the wind and is vocally expressing his distaste for fascism, much to Harriet's concern. Fortunes of War is truly epic, using the Pringles as lynch pin from which we observe the all consuming arrival of the Second World War as it cuts a brutal swath across Europe and North Africa. This adaptation of Olivia Manning's autobiographical novels is a beautifully performed find out more...

The trials and tribulations of small town Texas football players, their friends, family, and coaching staff.
DISC 5: I THINK WE SHOULD HAVE SEX, EXTENDED FAMILIES, CH-CH-CH-CH-CHANGES.

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When the Second World War is declared, Tom finds that his quiet life in the village of Little Weirwold is set to change. Nine-year-old Willie Beech is evacuated from London and billeted on him, Willie is a quiet sad child with a deprived and disturbing past but he slowly begins to flourish under the care of ‘Mister Tom' and enjoys an idyllic village life. John Thaw (Inspector Morse) stars as the widowed and cantankerous Tom Oakley in this charming film adaptation of the prize-winning children's find out more...

The series (11 episodes) tells the story of the village of Schabbach, on the Hunsrueck in Germany through the years 1919-1982. The central character is Maria, at the beginning a teenage girl, by the end an elderly matriarch, and her family who, like the rest of the German people, live through the crises of 1920s, Nazism and eventual rebirth following WWII. Heimat is a superb cinematic chronicle of social and political change, beautifully shot and breathtaking in its depth and scope. The honesty find out more...

The series (11 episodes) tells the story of the village of Schabbach, on the Hunsrueck in Germany through the years 1919-1982. The central character is Maria, at the beginning a teenage girl, by the end an elderly matriarch, and her family who, like the rest of the German people, live through the crises of 1920s, Nazism and eventual rebirth following WWII. Heimat is a superb cinematic chronicle of social and political change, beautifully shot and breathtaking in its depth and scope. The honesty find out more...

The somewhat sensationalist title belies what is at heart an earnest attempt to realistically portray the descent of Hitler into madness, paranoia and megalomania. While the recently made ‘Max' focused on the young Hitler from a ‘What Could've Been' angle, ‘Hitler: The Rise of Evil' tries admirably to stick to the facts as it traces his career in politics (as a rising star, darling of both the poor and the powered gentry), to his self-destructive end. While the film portrays a truncated view of find out more...

The British Raj: though their position seems secure, thoughtful English men and women know that "their" time in India is coming to an end. The story begins with an unjust arrest for rape; a young public school educated Indian man considers himself English rather than Indian, he works as a journalist in India, lives with his aunt and becomes involved with a British woman, Daphne. One night they are attacked in the Bibighar Gardens by a group of unknown men and she is raped. A lower-class British find out more...

The British Raj: though their position seems secure, thoughtful English men and women know that "their" time in India is coming to an end. The story begins with an unjust arrest for rape and the consequences of this echo through the series. Questions of identity and personal responsibility are explored against a background of war and personal intrigue. find out more...

The British Raj: though their position seems secure, thoughtful English men and women know that "their" time in India is coming to an end. The story begins with an unjust arrest for rape and the consequences of this echo through the series. Questions of identity and personal responsibility are explored against a background of war and personal intrigue. find out more...